35.2448, Books: Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History: Boer and Unger (ed.) (2024)

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Subject: 35.2448, Books: Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History: Boer and Unger (ed.) (2024)

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Date: 07-Sep-2024
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History: Boer and Unger (ed.) (2024)


Title: Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory   365
Publication Year: 20240809
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.365

Author: Elisabeth M. de Boer
Editor: James M. Unger
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214966 Pages: 138 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Abstract:

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in
Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō
Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental
phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the
Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their
east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the
separation of proto-Ryūkyūan; and so on. De Boer brings together
evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to
establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems
these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010, this book brings
the author’s theory up to date with research published in the interim,
explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone
language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs
are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.

Written In: English (eng)



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